We are indeed very good facebook friend who used to chat for long hours on various topics encompassing different aspects of life. I know he is smart at his heart and mind with his writing spirits and he lives with such zeal at his heart forever. He reads many books and sharpens his writing skills and vocabulary volume. The way he expresses in the chat is sometimes beyond my capacity to grasp and digest it due to my poor brain capacity and as a poor reader even though I am a literature graduate from Sherubtse College, kanglung in the year December 2014. I always salute him for his constant writing and blogging tirelessly to his appease his audiences round the world.
During our chat we used to share our common interest on practicing Buddha Dharma to end our suffering from hellish six realms which constantly tortures us. Vow! It was such amazing thing to hear from my friend that he wants to start his Ngondro practice after he identified one root master available at his local village. It was my duty to give him moral support to push his mission ahead which is indeed not that easy job as we dreamed. I did my job by throwing lot of talks on the importance of having do to with preliminary practices before we step into the real meditation hunt for the enlightenment as ultimate goal which was taught by lord Buddha. He did promise me to kick off soon. Many months passed b; I began to follow up with his words and promise but he failed to kick off with his important mission to start the Ngondro practices till date. Life is short and death is certain but my friend still wants to hang on with suffering and pain.
The drag from the five poisons really immersed him to wait and see when he should find proper date to kick off his preliminary practices that he wants to pursue ahead. How wonderful it was to discover that my friend shifted his faith and trust from earlier master and still hanging in the limbo state to finalize his faith to someone else. It was indeed like that my friend is one of the best football player who can choose to join the best clubs to earn huge sum of money. There are many master available nearby but the faith and trust that place upon is wavering and shaky. In Tantric Buddhism, faith and trust is the innermost substance that can lead to realization of our own mind into Buddha. But he failed to keep that spirit once he placed on his earlier master. Now he said no one is able to meet his "billing point" or expectations as a local master. It shows that he is hunting for very famous and top master round the world to lead him ahead. But if we don't have faith and trust, it is of no use in having very famous and top brand master as our root teacher. Everything boils down to our "genuine faith and trust" as tantric practitioner. Seeing everything from the perspective of intelligent thinking and critical way is just waste of life. As we cannot reach a level of unteachable and beyond mental process. Teachable things does not help us to reach the way of Buddha-hood but only unteachable can.
Indeed, it was such heart rending to discover from his latest chat that he shifted his faith and trust once he placed on and still ruminating to find one elsewhere. This another blow to his mission to find the ultimate goal with wavering and shaky faith and trust to master which is very dangerous mind set. With little hope I suggested him some few reputed masters to visit during our recent chat in the facebook but he may not reach his final decision to approach them. As he got critical mind and which is sometimes misleading him to wrong directions. Too much critical and judging is very dangerous and harmful to our life. Since we cannot build genuine faith and trust which is core components of Tantric practitioners. Throwing perspective judgments are another obstacles our real practices. Sometimes, we should be closing our mind and eyes to find wisdom in another person's mind even if he looks shabby and lousy master.
Hoping so high while write this article to kill away the critical minds of modern people and wasting their lives in finding mistakes in other person whereby ones own mistakes are hidden completely and deluded further. Buddhism is to dig out ones own mistakes and clean off our defilement but not to criticize other person and cook unnecessary stories and blow away in the wind. Knowing oneself is the ultimate goal of Buddhism. Scientific discovery can reach up to testable or teachable but not the unteachable which is ultimate goal. Hope my friend will learn something from my writing and cement his faith and trust before he visit his new master elsewhere in the pursuit of enlightenment!
Mindu Wangdi
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